Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] page_pool: introduce page_pool_alloc() API

Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16T18:47:22Z

On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:41:45 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > This is a sort-of. One thing that has come up as of late is that all
> > this stuff is being moved over to folios anyway and getting away from
> > pages. In addition I am not sure how often we are having to take this
> > path as I am not sure how many non-Tx frames end up having to have
> > fragments added to them. For something like veth it might be more
> > common though since Tx becomes Rx in this case.
>
> I'm thinking, that is it very unlikely that XDP have modified the
> fragments. So, why are we allocating and copying the fragments?
> Wouldn't it be possible for this veth code to bump the refcnt on these
> fragments? (maybe I missed some detail).

They may be page cache pages, AFAIU.